組織中の細胞間接着力を推測する

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A peculiar cellular pattern resembling a checkerboard was observed on the luminal surface of the oviduct epithelium of an adult Japanese quail. The epithelium was a monolayer cell sheet and consisted of two types of columnar cells, ciliated cells and gland cells assembled in alternating blocks. An assumption that adhesion was stronger between unlike cells than between like cells formed a checherboard pattern, because all cell boundries in it were edges along which unlike cells meeted. This consideration accompanying with cell boundary contraction of an epithelium enabled us to estimate an energy ratio between cell adhesions of unlike cells and like cells<SUP>11)</SUP>
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